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Hi, Thanks for the response ! As I said, I am pretty much of a rookie at this. >>As for 3DS R2 what res is it you want to change, the render display, main display, or the materials editor display? These can be changed in the 3ds.set file or using the VIBRANT configure program.<< I opened 3ds.set in ms-write and looked it over. Following are what I determined to be the relevant sections: ; Display to use for the main interface (VGA/RCPADI) if you have ; the proper RCPADI (combined rendering/display) protected mode ; ADI driver. (the sample RCPVESA.EXP driver is for VESA-compatible ; VGA cards.) ; If this is not set, it defaults to 640×480 VGA. ;MAIN-DISPLAY = RCPADI ; Display to use for Materials Editor (VGA/RCPADI) if you have ; the proper RCPADI (combined rendering/display) protected mode ; ADI driver. (the sample RCPVESA.EXP driver is for the VESA-compatible ; VGA cards.) ; If this is not set, it defaults to 320×200 VGA. Note that using ; the RCPADI interface for the Materials Editor is basically pointless, ; and will only slow you down without actually using the extra ; "real estate." ;MATERIAL-DISPLAY = RCPADI ; Default rendering driver to use… ; Built-in output drivers: VGA320X200, Vision16 (512×486), ; NULL (any-resolution), VistaL (512×486), VistaH (756×486) ; ADI system rendering display driver: RDPADI or RCPADI ; Note: Must have SET RDPADI or SET RCPADI statements ; in your AUTOEXEC.BAT for ADI drivers to function. ; Defaults to VGA320x200. RENDER-DISPLAY = vga320x200 After reading your response one of my questions is will I benefit from increasing resolution in any of these areas? The manual for my monitor claims that, in addition to lower values, it will support 1024×768 at 60/70/75 Hz and 1280×1024 at 60 Hz. I am certain that my Diamond Stealth64 card supports these resolutions also. It is my further understanding that a refresh rate of less than 70 Hz causes unacceptable flicker. Consequently I have endevored to use 1024×768.( I started out with 60 Hz and saw no flicker. I am now set at 70 Hz and decided not to use 75 Hz because it requires horz. and vert sync. polarity. I don't know what this sync. polarity is but decided to avoid it untill I understand ). Scince my system has this capability shouldn't I make use of it? If I were to make changes would I need to edit the bottom line in the appropriate sections of the 3ds.set file? The top 2 sections of my 3ds.set that I included have that semi-colon looking punctuation mark in front of thier last line while the last section does not. Are these marks actually semi-colons that have remarked out those lines and caused those sections to have thier described default values? As for acad, I went into the config menu and found that I had 2 available video drivers, Windows Driver and Windows Accelerated Display Driver ADI 4.2. The latter is my current video display. I changed to the Windows driver but saw no change so I changed back to ADI 4.2. I tried dragging the acad window to fill the screen and using shift+alt+f4 to save setting, but I still get a very small acad window each time I load acad. All of this makes my head fill like it's out of RAM. Thanks for your HELP. mark telluride,co.